pay the phone bill because the phone's been cut off for two weeks. [ laughter ] so -- you know, my mama -- >> jimmy: you don't mess with baby chris tucker. yeah, that's it. >> yeah. [ talking over each other ] get out of my room. so i went to the principals office and i was cool. 'cause me and the principal, i was in there so much, me and the principal was cool. [ laughter ] he was like, "what's up, chris?" i was like, "what's up, man?" he's like, what you say this time? >> jimmy: you guys were besties, yeah. >> we was cool. >> jimmy: that's good. did you ever do, like, talent shows or anything growing up? >> oh, yeah. i did talent show. so what happened, i went into the office and the principal's secretary was over at the talent show. so she was like, you're always acting up, why don't you host the talent show? i said, i don't want to do nothing like this. well it paying $30. i said, okay. what i gotta do? what i gotta do? [ light laughter ] i got that $30 -- >> jimmy: can i do it twice? >> yeah, man. so i went up there and told my first joke. man, got a big laugh. the whole school lau